This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 4.19.174 release. There are 17 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please let me know.
Responses should be made by Sun, 07 Feb 2021 14:06:42 +0000. Anything received after that time might be too late.
The whole patch series can be found in one patch at: https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/stable-review/patch-4.19.174-rc... or in the git tree and branch at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-stable-rc.git linux-4.19.y and the diffstat can be found below.
thanks,
greg k-h
------------- Pseudo-Shortlog of commits:
Greg Kroah-Hartman gregkh@linuxfoundation.org Linux 4.19.174-rc1
Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org workqueue: Restrict affinity change to rescuer
Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org kthread: Extract KTHREAD_IS_PER_CPU
Josh Poimboeuf jpoimboe@redhat.com objtool: Don't fail on missing symbol table
Michael Ellerman mpe@ellerman.id.au selftests/powerpc: Only test lwm/stmw on big endian
Brian King brking@linux.vnet.ibm.com scsi: ibmvfc: Set default timeout to avoid crash during migration
Felix Fietkau nbd@nbd.name mac80211: fix fast-rx encryption check
Javed Hasan jhasan@marvell.com scsi: libfc: Avoid invoking response handler twice if ep is already completed
Martin Wilck mwilck@suse.com scsi: scsi_transport_srp: Don't block target in failfast state
Peter Zijlstra peterz@infradead.org x86: __always_inline __{rd,wr}msr()
Arnold Gozum arngozum@gmail.com platform/x86: intel-vbtn: Support for tablet mode on Dell Inspiron 7352
Hans de Goede hdegoede@redhat.com platform/x86: touchscreen_dmi: Add swap-x-y quirk for Goodix touchscreen on Estar Beauty HD tablet
Tony Lindgren tony@atomide.com phy: cpcap-usb: Fix warning for missing regulator_disable
Eric Dumazet edumazet@google.com net_sched: gen_estimator: support large ewma log
Christian Brauner christian@brauner.io sysctl: handle overflow in proc_get_long
Rafael J. Wysocki rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com ACPI: thermal: Do not call acpi_thermal_check() directly
Lijun Pan ljp@linux.ibm.com ibmvnic: Ensure that CRQ entry read are correctly ordered
Pan Bian bianpan2016@163.com net: dsa: bcm_sf2: put device node before return
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Diffstat:
Makefile | 4 +- arch/x86/include/asm/msr.h | 4 +- drivers/acpi/thermal.c | 55 +++++++++++++++------- drivers/net/dsa/bcm_sf2.c | 8 +++- drivers/net/ethernet/ibm/ibmvnic.c | 6 +++ drivers/phy/motorola/phy-cpcap-usb.c | 19 +++++--- drivers/platform/x86/intel-vbtn.c | 6 +++ drivers/platform/x86/touchscreen_dmi.c | 18 +++++++ drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi/ibmvfc.c | 4 +- drivers/scsi/libfc/fc_exch.c | 16 ++++++- drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_srp.c | 9 +++- include/linux/kthread.h | 3 ++ kernel/kthread.c | 27 ++++++++++- kernel/smpboot.c | 1 + kernel/sysctl.c | 40 +++++++++++++++- kernel/workqueue.c | 9 ++-- net/core/gen_estimator.c | 11 +++-- net/mac80211/rx.c | 2 + tools/objtool/elf.c | 7 ++- .../powerpc/alignment/alignment_handler.c | 5 +- 20 files changed, 206 insertions(+), 48 deletions(-)